1st Edition

An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and…

Difference Exposed, 1st Edition

This book challenges the understanding of ‘difference’ in the field of peacebuilding and offers new ways to consider diversity in the context of international interventions.
International peacebuilding as a practice and academic field has always been embroiled in the ‘problem’ of difference. For…

The Role of the United Nations, 1st Edition

This book evaluates how far the UN has embraced human security as a policy agenda and explores its relevance for international law.
The extent to which the UN has embraced human security as a viable policy agenda has implications and consequences for international law, such as the challenge to…

Principles, Law and Practice, 1st Edition

This volume takes a humanitarian perspective to protection in conflicts and seeks to introduce the what and the how of doing protection work, and the impact of the new humanitarian politics on its practice.
Humanitarian protection lies at the heart of the new prominence of humanitarian action: ‘…

The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1st Edition

This book assesses why some states chose to engage with transitional justice, drawing on the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The DRC has suffered one of the most protracted and deadliest conflicts in Africa in the post-Cold War period. Since the outbreak of the first Congolese…

Conflict Intensity in Africa since the Cold War, 1st Edition

This book examines the effects of external interventions on conflict escalation in civil wars, using data from African conflicts since the cold war.
It investigates how the targets and types of external interventions affect the capabilities of the conflict parties, which lead to…

Dynamics of Escalation and Continuation, 1st Edition

This book draws upon and engages with research from the wide range of subfields that have addressed the issues of escalation and protraction in violent conflict, focusing on the dynamics of conflict as such.
The volume rethinks conflict processes in depth through crucial parameters…

Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth Century Traumas in Croatia, 1st Edition

This book analyses top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from World War Two and the 1990s ‘Homeland War’ in Croatia. With attention to media representations of commemorative events and opinion poll data,…

The Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective, 1st Edition

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will cover an African market of 1.2…

Democracy and Reconciliation, 1st Edition

By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconciliation. The research, founded on primary as well as secondary data, concludes that political systems have little to do with the success or failure of…

Power, Conflict and Humiliation, 1st Edition

This book offers a detailed study of the psycho-politics of governmental manipulation, in which a vulnerable population is disciplined by contorting their sense of self-worth.
In many conflict settings a nation’s government exerts its dominance over a marginalized population group through laws,…